by anyajulia | Sep 12, 2008 | Headlines, National News
THE Versoza promotion to the highest rank of the country’s police force is good as done.
This was the categorical statement of one of the country’s top police officers when asked who might make it as the successor of Police Director General Avelino Razon who is set to retire on September 27.
The official, who asked for anonymity agreed it may still be the presidential prerogative on whom to name, but he added the country’s current number 2 cop man has all the qualifications to do the job.
PDDGen Jesus Versoza is the country’s deputy director general for police administration at the Philippine National Police (PNP), a post that needs a three star general rank. He sits after Police Director General Avelino Razon, the national police director.
When promoted, he gets a 4 star rank, a position that equals him to the military’s major general, the police source said.
Gen. Versoza along with PNP top brass was the guest of honor during the 5th National Biennial Summit on Women in Policing, which is held at the Bohol Plaza Resort in Dauis.
At the summit opening ceremonies, Versoza was also openly acknowledged the country’s next top-rank police, in at least three times, this while the formal turn-over of command happens in a little more than two weeks before General Razon becomes a civilian again.
Asked why Versoza is the best bet for the seat, PCSUpt. Antonio Tanchaco confirmed added that the National Police Commission has already endorsed Versoza to the President.
The Commission en banc has also endorsed its support for Versoza to the designation as the next Chief PNP via Resolution No. 2008-449.
Interior Secretary and Napolcom chairman Ronaldo Puno, Vice Chairman and Executive Officer Eduardo Escueta, Commissioners Celia Sanidad-Leones, Luis Mario General and Miguel Coronel and Razon ex-officio member of the Commission en banc signed the resolution.
Napolcom’s official recommendation to President Arroyo on Versoza’s appointment comes when Director General Avelino Razon Jr., retires on September 27, 2008.
Once approved by President Arroyo, Versoza will be the 15th PNP chief since its creation as a civilian police organization from the defunct Philippine Constabulary- Integrated National Police (PC-INP) on January 29, 1991.
A Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Class 1976 member, he formerly headed the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and has also served as the director of PNP-Region IV (Southern Tagalog).
Razon will be retiring on September 27, upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.
Turnover ceremonies is scheduled on September 29. (rachiu/PIA/PNA)
by anyajulia | Sep 12, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
A top police official here in the Visayas confirmed reports that Bohol gets 110 more police officers, but the reinforcement goes all the way to the country’s first tourist police detachment here.
Nevertheless, the local Philippine National Police (PNP) officials here admit the move would be a great help as it largely contributes to police visibility at a time when police and population ratio hangs at 1:1100.
Police Regional Director Ronaldo Roderos confirmed reports that the new cops would be deployed here, and they would be manning tourist police detachments set up in key spots in the province.
Aside from the tourist cops, General Roderos also talked about the formation of a local Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT), which is impending.
He reported that the Bohol team is already on the neuro-psychiatric tests before the formal training could commence.
Outgoing Police Director General Avelino Razon is slated to come to Bohol ext week to formally launch the new SWAT team, Bohol Capitol sources revealed last week.
It was not clear however if the 110 new cops include those to be assigned at the soon to be formed SWAT team.
At a press conference after the summit opening ceremonies, PCSupt Roderos said “the PNP is mandated to provide the personnel support” to the Bohol innovation in putting up tourist police detachments in key tourism stops.
The tourist police is a new concept of community policing where cops would be deployed in tourist areas both for crime prevention and for tourist assistance.
The tourist police is one of the main reasons why Central Visayas rates high in the annual search for the country’s best peace and order councils, said National Police Commission Regional Director Bernardo Calibo, in an earlier interview.
Roderos, who along with Deputy Director General Jesus Versoza and still a handful; of key police brass is attending the 5th National Biennial Summit on Women in Policing at the Bohol Plaza Resort from September 11-13.
The confirmation also elicited positive response from the local police forces who aired elation about the fact that police visibility especially in tourist circuits is largely enhanced.
Here, with police force totally outnumbered in crime prevention ratio, residents have asked fr more police visibility as deterrent force to crimes. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 12, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
BOHOL rabies prevention program gets a longer leash with the World Health Organization (WHO) pitching in to help prop up the local initiative to eradicate the threat.
Provincial Veterinarian Stella Marie Lapiz bared this Wednesday as her update to members of the Bohol Rabies Prevention and Eradication Council during a meeting at the Mansion.
This she also gave to the delight of the Bohol Rabies Prevention and Eradication Council (BRPEC) members who have labored for setting up the mechanism for the program to be unleashed.
Bohol has topped Central Visayas in human and animal rabies cases, causing undue threat to the thriving tourism industry here.
In her report Wednesday, Dr. Lapiz said WHO has granted Bohol P1.1M in year-long fund to aid in helping attain the goal of making Bohol rabies free by 2010.
WHO also understood that Bohol Capitol puts up a counterpart fund of P1.5M, Dr. Lapiz shared.
The fund is available from August 2008 to July 2009, said Dr. Soe Nyunt-U, WHO representative in the Philippines, in a letter sent to Dr. Lapiz sated August 26, 2008.
This fund is different from the bulk of P7M apportioned for Bohol by the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC), which Dr. Lapiz earlier bared to the media.
The ARC fund is for piloting initiatives in a province-wide anti-rabies campaign to help Bohol anti-rabies and responsible pet owner advocates document a collaborative effort.
The end goal is for ARC to create a template for future support program in their rabies elimination campaign in other countries, Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz then said.
One of the terms of reference for the WHO fund however includes institutionalization of Barangay rabies watchers through a barangay resolution or ordinance.
To Dr. Lapiz and BRPEC members, this is not much of a problem as even before the funding assistance came, the Bantay Rabies sa Barangay (BRBs), or roughly translated as the barangay rabies watchers have been set up in earlier initiatives.
Moreover, another term asks Bohol, who will manage the fund to improve the capacity of barangays in the implementation of different services and activities for developing the project in Bohol.
The Bohol anti-rab program has been incorporating activities to the same effect, Dr. Lapiz assured.
A third reference, the fund should help set up the development of information materials and a speaker’s bureau for the program.
Over this, Dr, Lapiz and the council members are confident this is not a big problem for the Bohol program, with the initial anti-rabies plan covering all quarters to make it thorough.
Another reference is for the establishment of a dog database at the barangay levels, the development and implementation of a reporting, recording, monitoring and evaluation tools for the use of barangays as well as a regular system for reports submission, these too have been responded in the initial province-wide plan.
The fund also obliges Bohol to submit inception reports, initial progress reports and a final report in two weeks after the end of the implementation. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 12, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
HOPES for new civil works and or medical-veterinary aid springs as a team of army civil military operations experts from the United States Pacific command end a Bohol study visit in the next few days.
The team, led by US Army Major David Larson and comprised of 5 more men met Capitol development planners Tuesday to discuss areas of mutual assistance.
The team, part of the joint cooperative agreements between the two nations is a part of the standard Balikatan team sent by the US to different areas across the globe, especially to countries sympathetic to the humanitarian cause, a Capitol bigwig who asked not to be identified said.
The team came to call on Governor Erico Aumentado accompanied by their counterparts in the Philippine Army, led by Carmen Bohol based 802nd Deputy Brigade Commander Col. Allan F. Martin.
Roger Alegado of the local Planning and development Office also briefed the team of the Bohol medium Term Development Plan. This is apparently to give them an idea of the areas where their assistance can come in.
Also at the presentation were Provincial health officer Reymoses Cabagnot, Veterinarian Stella Marie Lapiz, social welfare officer Constancia Tunacao, Poverty Reduction Management Officer Antonieto Pernia and Dep-Ed Superintendent Elpedio Jala.
“In the next 10 days, we would gather specific information and specific needs of the community and we would be looking at possibilities of putting help on the medical and veterinary services,” US Maj Larson said.
“But that does not mean we can not look up to the needs of water projects as presented and other civil works, he was quick to add.
Balikatan, a Filipino word which entails shouldering the load together pits US servicemen and their Filipino counterparts to help each other, those in need and enhance their skills in the spirit of give and take.
Aside from the usual jungle and warfare trainings which comes as a small part of the annual bilateral exercise between two countries, Balikatan also features dozens of medical and engineering projects for the host country, military sources said.
“Our troops are ready to maximize the opportunity to do something that will have lasting benefits for peace and social progress in the mission areas, Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Nestor Sadiarin said during previous exercises.
“We’ll do that by sharing the load together,” he added.
Sadiarin is the exercise co-director for this year’s Balikatan exercises, sources revealed.
“Joined together in a collective effort, our military medical professionals along with local doctors, nurses, veterinarians and volunteers will provide free medical, dental, and veterinary care to local communities where these services are most needed,” said U.S. Brig. Gen. John Y. H. Ma, co-exercise director of Balikatan 08 was quoted in military websites. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 12, 2008 | Headlines, National News
DUHA ka batan-ong Bol-anong lider ang nakaangkon sa libreng kahigayunan nga malakip sa 2008 ASEAN Cadres Training Program nga gi-organisa sa China Giangxi international Institute.
Milarga na sila si Christopher Boncales ug Emerson Pinos ning semanaha paingon sa Tsina.
Silang duha mga trabahante sa Capitolyo ug napadala sa duha ka buwan nga bansaybansay didto sa Naning, Guangxi ug Beijing sa China sugod ugma ngadto sa Nobyembre 10.
Kini maoy gibutyag ni National youth Commissioner Benjie Oliva, kinsa maoy gikasabot sa kagamhanan sa Tsina kabahin niining lakaw.
Si Boncales front desk officer ug resident tour guide sa Capitolyo samtang si Pinos maoy graphic artist sa Provincial Government Media Affairs ug usa ka boluntaryo sa Sangguninag Kabataan. (rachiu/PIA)
